THE JAMMU AND KASHMIR REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE 
(SUPPLEMENTARY) ACT, 1968
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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SECTIONS

1.  Short title and commencement. 
2.  Application of sections 116A, 116B and 116C of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, 
to orders made by Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
3.  Repeal and saving.

 
 
THE JAMMU AND KASHMIR REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE 
(SUPPLEMENTARY) ACT, 1968

ACT NO. 3 OF 1968 

[23rd March, 1968.] 

An Act to supplement the Jammu and Kashmir Representation of the People Act, 1957. 

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 

1.  Short  title  and  commencement.—(1)  This  Act  may  be  called  the  Jammu  and  Kashmir 
Representation of the People (Supplementary) Act, 1968. 

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 9th day of February, 1968.

2.  Application  of  sections  116A,  116B  and  116C  of  the  Representation  of  the  People 
Act,  1951,  to  orders  made  by  Jammu  and  Kashmir  High  Court.—The  provisions  of  sections 
116A, 116B and 116C of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951) shall, so far as may 
be,  apply  to  every  order  made  by  the  High  Court  of  Jammu  and  Kashmir  subject  to  the  following                
modifications, namely:—

(a) references therein to the High Court shall be construed as including references to the High 
Court of Jammu and Kashmir, 

(b) references therein to the State Legislature or to the Speaker or Chairman thereof, shall be 
construed as including references to the Legislature of the State of Jammu and Kashmir* and to 
the Speaker or Chairman thereof, and

(c) references therein to the  provisions  of the  Representation  of the  People                           
Act, 1951 (43 of 1951), shall, in relation to the  State of Jammu and Kashmir[^1], be construed as 
references  to  the  corresponding  provisions  of  the  Jammu  and  Kashmir  Representation  of  the 
People Act, 1957 (Jammu and Kashmir Act No. IV of 1957).

3.  Repeal  and  saving.—(1)  The  Jammu  and  Kashmir  Representation  of  the  People 
(Supplementary) Ordinance, 1968 (2 of 1968) is hereby repealed. 

(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the said Ordinance shall 
be deemed to have been done or taken under this Act 1957. 

[^1] Vide notification No. S.O. 3912(E), dated 30th October, 2019, this Act is  made applicable to the Union territory of 
Jammu and Kashmir and the Union territory of Ladakh.